Venice Shoreline Crips

The Venice Shoreline Crips is a set of the Crips gang, based in the Venice neighborhood of Los Angeles. The VSC was founded in the late 1960s, inspired by the Black Power movement and black militant riots in the neighborhood. While unemployment soared with the closure of the oil fields, the 1960s brought drugs and racial tension to Venice, and gang membership rose among the African-American VSC and the Hispanic Venice 13 gangs, which became rivals. In the 1980s, the VSC became heavily involved in the narcotics business. Leading into the 1990s, gunfire was heard nightly as the Shorelines warred with rival Culver City 13 after Shoreline cliques were pushed out of the Mar Vista Gardens projects. During the 1990s, the gang went to war with Venice 13 over control of the local drug trade, leaving almost 24 people dead in nine months. Eventually, V13 allied with Santa Monica 13 and Culver City 13, and the Mexican Mafia negotiated a truce. The gang developed rivalries with the surrounding Latino gangs as well as numerous Crips sets such as the Playboy Gangster Crips, Graveyard Gangster Crips, the Rollin 40's Crips, the Rollin 60 Neighborhood Crips, Grape Street Watts, and all Bloods gangs.